American Standard Version
Job 37:16
16Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds,The wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?
Job 37:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
- New International Version (NIV)Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who has perfect knowledge?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge,
- New King James Version (NKJV)Do you know how the clouds are balanced, Those wondrous works of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
Context of Job 37:16
14Hearken unto this, O Job: Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. 15Dost thou know how God layeth his charge upon them, And causeth the lightning of his cloud to shine? Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, The wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge? 17How thy garments are warm, When the earth is still by reason of the southwind? 18Canst thou with him spread out the sky, Which is strong as a molten mirror?
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הֲ֭תֵדַע עַל־מִפְלְשֵׂי־עָ֑ב מִ֝פְלְא֗וֹת תְּמִ֣ים דֵּעִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 37:16
- Job 26:8He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; And the cloud is not rent under them.
- Job 36:29Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, The thunderings of his pavilion?
- Psalms 104:2Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;
- Isaiah 40:22It is he that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;
- Jeremiah 10:13When he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.
- Job 36:4For truly my words are not false: One that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
- Psalms 104:24O Jehovah, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: The earth is full of thy riches.
- Psalms 147:5Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite.
- Proverbs 3:19Jehovah by wisdom founded the earth; By understanding he established the heavens.
- Jeremiah 10:12He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath he stretched out the heavens.
Commentaries on Job 37:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds - How are the clouds suspended in the atmosphere? Art thou so well acquainted with the nature of evaporation, and the gravity of the air at different heights, to support different weights of aqueous vapor, so as to keep them floating for a certain portion of time, and then let them down to water the earth; dost thou know these things so as to determine the laws by which they are regulated? Wondrous works of him…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds? - That is, Dost thou know how the clouds are poised and suspended in the air? The difficulty to be explained was, that the clouds, so full of water, did not fail to the earth, but remained suspended in the atmosphere. They were poised and moved about by some unseen hand. Elihu asks what kept them there; what prevented their falling to the earth; what preserved the equilibrium so that they did not all roll…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-20Verses 14-20 Due thoughts of the works of God will help to reconcile us to all his providences. As God has a powerful, freezing north wind, so he has a thawing, composing south wind: the Spirit is compared to both, because he both convinces and comforts, So 4:16. The best of men are much in the dark concerning the glorious perfections of the Divine nature and the Divine government. Those who, through grace, know much of God, know nothing, in comparison…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1616. Hebrew, "Hast thou understanding of the balancings," &c., how the clouds are poised in the air, so that their watery gravity does not bring them to the earth? The condensed moisture, descending by gravity, meets a warmer temperature, which dissipates it into vapor (the tendency of which is to ascend) and so counteracts the descending force. perfect in knowledge--God; not here in the sense that Elihu uses it of himself (Job 36:4). dost thou know--how…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 37
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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